Nationality: United StatesExecutive summary: Former White House domestic policy advisor

Former Deputy Secretary of HHS.

In 1984, as a press aide to Jesse Helms, Allen told the Greensboro News and Record:

"We could expound on and undertake a campaign against Jim Hunt's connections with the homosexuals, the labor union connection, the radical feminist connection, the socialist connection."

Subsequent reports claim that Allen's precise words had actually been: "We could go back and do the same thing with the queers[...]" But then he called the reporter back and apologized for his choice of words.

Nominated to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but was filibustered by Senate Democrats.